Intel's 5G Chips Won't Appear in Mobile Phones Until 2020

[dialogos]

What I notice is Apple fans were supporting Apple when few years ago removed the standard USB and replaced it with USB-C because it was the future. Same people praised Apple for thinking forward by pushing new technologies to consumers and forcing them to use them.

Now other companies push a new technology - 5G - and there's so much negativity because it's simply not introduced by Apple.

Speaking for myself, If I have to buy a brand new phone which I plan to keep for 3-4 years I would definitely want it to have 5G !!!

 

[techwhiz]

I'm getting 107Mbps down and 34.3Mbps up right now.
5G means what to me? I can't use the bandwidth I have now, since no headend delivers that for streaming anyway.
Uncompressed HD 4:2:2 is about 50Mbps; so right now I can stream uncompressed HD; two streams.
I need 5G why?

BTW, I don't have an iPhone just indicating the 5G is pure hype and a bullet point on some marketing document.
5G won't be deployed by most carriers with any real coverage until 2021.
So getting there when the infrastructure is there is what kind of problem?

Also note that the first phones with 5G and the Qualcomm X50 chip will not have integrated 5G/4G and will require multiple chips. The X55 and the mmWave module will be the first integrated chip and thin antennae and that is scheduled for next year sometime.

So how is Intel really slow to market?
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5G has to be the most overhyped, non-factor tech in years. Reception will NEVER be good, there is zero benefit to gigabit on phones, and higher power consumption will be a drag. I think the only reason it is being pushed so hard is because there is nothing else for mobile operators to market. It will make no significant difference in anyone’s daily life and it will be too unreliable for anything critical.

Absolutely this.

 

[tresmith]

I just bought my Xs a few months ago and I plan on keeping it for awhile. By the time I'm ready and willing to upgrade 5G will be everywhere. Lol

 

[Thrutheroofnunderground]

I can wait. As much as carriers and smartphone vendors want us to buy into the ‘5G is here’ hype the infrastructure for widespread adoption just won’t be here for some time

Exactly. YEARS. If that. Much of the US doesn't see legit 4G speeds. Isn't the average somewhere in the low 30s MBPS? I don't see this benefiting anything other than densely populated areas, for at least a decade, minimum.
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I remember when LTE came out. It was trash. I had a Samsung phone with LTE and it was slow, spotty, and never worked well.

iPhones didn't have OLED, but still managed to have some of the best screens in the industry.

Apple isn't last to every technology and when they aren't first, they always make it work better.

Apple also has industry leading silicon.

Yes, but unless Apple starts banging out their own modems, it won't matter. Intel modems suck. There isn't any other way to say it. The last iPhone that had a Qualcomm modem, and Intel modems, Apple throttled the QC ones to match the inferior Intel ones. I now have an iPhone (my wife is an iPhone lifer) and let me tell you, the Wifi/LTE reception are worse on the XS Max than they were on a first generation Pixel. That's ridiculously sad for the difference in cost and time in years.

Edit: I don't care about 5G, but realistically, most people in the U.S. don't see 4G, or LTE Advanced speeds. I mostly care about my wifi not dropping constantly at my house or work (it does, even at times when I'm probably 15 unobstructed feet of the router).

 

[KGBguy]

Apple is now friends with microsoft and ibm. Anything can happen.

No kidding. Let's see if we can benefit from it, like a good paying consumer should. ))

 

[I7guy]

...Yes, but unless Apple starts banging out their own modems, it won't matter. Intel modems suck. There isn't any other way to say it. The last iPhone that had a Qualcomm modem, and Intel modems, Apple throttled the QC ones to match the inferior Intel ones. I now have an iPhone (my wife is an iPhone lifer) and let me tell you, the Wifi/LTE reception are worse on the XS Max than they were on a first generation Pixel. That's ridiculously sad for the difference in cost and time in years.

Edit: I don't care about 5G, but realistically, most people in the U.S. don't see 4G, or LTE Advanced speeds. I mostly care about my wifi not dropping constantly at my house or work (it does, even at times when I'm probably 15 unobstructed feet of the router).

Maybe my speeds aren’t as fast as some other phones but on my max they are plenty fast for me.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Hope to see the 5G chips in notebooks too.

 

[MacAlien]

Just kiss and make up with Qualcomm, Apple!

They’ve yet to kiss and make up with Nvidia after all these years so that won’t happen with Qualcomm.